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Mind of the Champion 7: Emotional Management Techniques

Mind of the Champion 7: Emotional Management Techniques Specific techniques to help you manage your emotional state on the course. These are also life skills ...

Mind of the Champion 5: Your Ideal Emotional Playing State

Mind of the Champion 5: Your Ideal Emotional Playing State Some people perform best when they are calm. Some when they are pumped up. Which ...

Mind of the Champion 8: Championship Golf Skills

Mind of the Champion 8: Championship Golf Skills Let’s recap all we’ve learned about the mind of the Champion. It’s all about managing how we ...

Mind of the Champion 6: Playing High Level Golf

Mind of the Champion 6: Playing High Level Golf Up your game by learning how to play at higher levels. Golf is 90% mental. The ...

Mind of the Champion 4: Emotional Landscape

Mind of the Champion 4: Emotional Landscape You can’t stop emotions. They happen. Especially in golf. But what you can do is limit the duration ...

Mind of the Champion 3: Stages of Learning

Mind of the Champion 3: Stages of Learning Since golf is a game of constant change it behooves us to understand how we learn and ...

Mind of the Champion 2: Your Three Minds

Mind of the Champion 2: Your Three Minds How to best use the capabilities of your three brains. Knowing the roles of your thinking brain, ...

Driver Tip 5: Wider Swing Means More Distance

Driver Tip 5: For More Distance Create A Wider Swing Arc One of the biggest keys to more distance is developing a wider swing instead ...

Driver Tip 4: Lead with Your Elbow for Speed

Driver Tip 4: For Clubhead Speed, Lead with Your Elbow Imagine a baseball pitcher on the mound. They generate velocity by leading the pitch with ...

Driver Tip 3: Grip Pressure and Distance

Driver Tip 3: Get More Distance With the Right Grip Pressure There is a right grip pressure and wrong grip pressures. The Just Right grip ...

Driver Tip 2: Leverage is Power

Driver Tip 2: Get Power From Leverage I’ll show you where your leverage point is and how to use it to develop a more powerful ...

How To Hit a Million-Dollar Clutch Drive – Kevin Sutherland

Kevin Sutherland stood on the 18th tee with a 1-shot lead in the final round of the Schwab Cup Championship - one of the biggest ...

Driver Tip 1: The Money Shot

Driver Tip #1: The Money Shot See how starting the downswing with the lower body, from the ground up, will lead to more distance and ...

“Clutch is Super-Fun” Cal Bear Women’s Coach Nancy McDaniel

Cal Bear Women's Golf Head Coach Nancy McDaniel Talks Clutch For Nancy McDaniel’s Cal Bears Women’s Golf team it was Do or Die time at ...

Get 20 Yards 4: Train For Distance

Get 20 Yards 4: How To Train For Distance If you want to achieve a specific goal – let’s say adding 20 to 30 more ...

Juli Inkster: What Makes a Champion

What makes a Champion? Juli Inkster knows. The LPGA Hall-of-Famer and 3-time Solheim Cup Captain has some inspiring words for all of us in her ...

Get 20 Yards 3: Athletic Balance for More Speed

Get 20 Yards 3: Athletic Balance Will Give You More Speed Let’s put the finishing touches on getting you more distance. Our goal is to ...

Confidence in the Clutch: Jeff Brehaut’s Prescription for Great Golf

We all know that we play our best when we play with confidence. But where does confidence come from? PGA Tour veteran Jeff Brehaut has ...

Get 20 Yards 2: Rotate To The Target

Get 20 Yards 2: Rotate To The Target Let’s get back to work on getting you 20 more yards. I hope you had a chance ...

Mind of the Champion 1: Peak Performance Mental Skills

Mind of the Champion 1: Peak Performance Mental Skills In this series I’ll discuss the characteristics of Champions and what makes them rise to the ...

Tiger Woods is NOT Stanford’s Best College Player

Tiger Woods is NOT Stanford's Best-Ever College Player I know. Shocking, isn't it? Nope. Maverick McNealy holds the honor of Stanford’s best based on statistical ...

Get 20 Yards 1: Hold Your Lag

Get 20 Yards 1: How To Hold Your Lag I've never met a golfer who wouldn't love to tack another 20 yards onto their drives ...

Speed Killers 3

Speed Killers 3: Training For Distance In the first video we talked about the most important Key to distance: Speed. Specifically, club head speed through ...

Radar Chronicles Episode 3: Adding 20 Yards by Changing Impact Dynamics

In this video we review the changes players made to their swing path, angle of attack, and face angle - what we are calling Impact ...

How To Avoid Train Wrecks on the Golf Course – Kirk Triplett

Kirk Triplett has some great advice in the form of a question he says they ask each other on the PGA Tour: “Do you own ...

Speed Killers 2

Speed Killers 2: Stop Losing Distance I want to touch on the most common issues I’ve seen after teaching thousands of lessons to golfers of ...

Clutch Golf Shots and Closers – Glen Albaugh Interview

In this Closers Interview with Dr. Glen Albaugh we discuss two things that enabled me to win my second World Long Drive Championship: Being present-centered, ...

Speed Killers 1

Speed Killers - How To Get 60 More Yards I’m one of the smaller guys in long drive, which means I just can’t afford to ...

Scott McCarron Wins Senior PGA Championship with Clutch Shots

In this Clutch Golfer Podcast interview with Scott McCarron we learn how he won his first major - the Senior PGA Championship - with clutch ...

Consistent Golf 5: Tempo

Consistent Golf 5: Tempo One of the keys to improving your consistency is finding the right tempo for your swing. Tempo is simply the rhythm ...

Consistent Golf 4: Athletic Balance

Consistent Golf 4: Athletic Balance One of the most critical steps you can take to improve the consistency of your golf swing is to get ...

Consistent Golf 3: Spine Angle

Consistent Golf 3: Spine Angle Maintaining your spine angle throughout the swing is one of the most important ways to improve your consistency - primarily ...

Consistent Golf 2: Grip, Alignment, Stance, Posture

Consistent Golf 2: GASP Grip Alignment Stance Posture Everybody would like to play more consistent golf. And no wonder. The essence of consistency is reliability ...

High Performance Golf 4: Mental Toughness Training

Performance Based Golf: Mental Toughness Training Here's my definition of Mental Toughness: The ability to focus on the task at hand in the face of ...

Consistent Golf 1: Pre-Shot Routine

Consistent Golf 1: Pre-Shot Routine The first key to playing consistent golf is developing a consistent approach to each shot, or pre-shot routine. You know ...

Secret To Lag 3

The Secret To Lag: Training What I am going to show you today are the 5 skills you need to improve your distance no matter ...

Secret To Lag 2

The Secret To Lag 2 Everybody is looking for more distance in their game. So let me give you one of my best-kept secrets … ...

Performance Golf Training 4: Mid-Iron Distance Control 2

Performance Golf Training 4: Mid-Iron Distance Control 2 In this video I'll show you how I structure a practice to address a mechanical issue in ...

Secret To Lag 1

What is the Secret to Lag? One of the secrets to distance is lag. In this video I’ll let you in on the real secret ...

News: Eric Jones Named NorCal PGA Teacher of the Year

PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Nor Cal PGA Names Eric Jones the Teacher of the Year VACAVILLE, Calif. — The Northern California Section of the ...

High Performance Golf 1: Performance-Based Golf – Antidote to the Mechanics Trap

Your Antidote to the Mechanics Trap Have you ever felt like the more you learn about the golf swing the worse you get? There's a ...

Performance Golf Training 1: Driver Accuracy Training 1

Performance Golf Training 1: Driver Accuracy Training 1 You can make dramatic improvements in your score on the golf course by structuring your practice on ...

Radar Chronicles Episode 2: Baseline Iron Shot Data

Watch the video for our weekly update, and then continue reading below the video. What does it take to play better golf? That's exactly the ...

Radar Chronicles Day 1 – Is Radar the next BIG THING for better golf?

Radar training is being hailed as "the next big thing" in golf instruction. Golf Channel's Martin Hall and 2012 PGA Teacher of the Year Michael ...

High Performance Golf 2: How To Simplify Your Golf Game

High Performance Golf 2: How To Simplify Your Golf Game I'd like to dramatically simplify your golf game. I think we've become too focused on ...

High Performance Golf 3: Golf and the Performance Pyramid

High Performance Golf 3: Golf and the Performance Pyramid This newsletter is about performance. What it takes to get the ball in the hole. That ...

High Performance Golf 5: Use Visualization for More Consistent, Accurate Golf Shots

High Performance Golf 5: Use Visualization for More Consistent, Accurate Golf Shots Visualization is one of the key skills that separates better golfers from the ...

High Performance Golf 6: Visualization 2 – See Shots In Advance

High Performance Golf 6: Visualization and the Benefit of Seeing Shots In Advance How, exactly, does visualization help with your golf shot? Perhaps the following ...

Golf Channel and Long Drive – Good for Golf?

Big news in the small world of long drive: the World Long Drive Championships are moving to Golf Channel (from ESPN). Will this be good ...

Journey to the Worlds 2012: My Golf Equipment at the Long Drive Championship

I've had a number of comments and requests for info about the golf club equipment I used at the 2012 World Long Drive Championship. Here's the ...

Journey to the Worlds 2012: Winning the 2012 World Long Drive Championship – it’s about more than the title

On winning the 2012 World Long Drive Championship: Much More Than A Title After a long and grueling day in the desert heat of Mesquite, ...

News: PGA Teaching Professional Eric Jones Wins 2012 RE/MAX World Long Drive Super Senior Championship (Press Release)

(PRWEB) PGA teaching professional and Orinda, CA resident Eric Jones wins the 2012 RE/MAX World Long Drive Championship in the Super Senior Division (age 50 ...

Journey to the Worlds 2012: Golf Swing Training Aids

Golf swing training aids are one of my keys to making effective use of my time on the driving range. In this video I'll show ...

Journey to the Worlds 2012: Driver Accuracy, Maximum Power and Swing Width

Journey to the Worlds 2012 In this video I'm going to talk about how a recent corporate outing, and aiming to only half the fairway, ...

Journey to the Worlds 2012: Contingency Practice, Pressure Golf Swings

Journey to the Worlds 2012 In this video I talk about "contingency" practice. Contingency practice is "what if .." practice, and it's a key component ...

Journey to the Worlds 2012: Pre-Shot Routines, Deliberate Practice, Tournament Prep

Journey to the Worlds 2012 In this video I talk about driver configurations and how to prepare for a golf tournament. My objective in this ...

Journey to the Worlds 2012 – Testing Golf Clubs, Competition Secrets

Journey to the Worlds 2012 Here's another quick video of one of my training sessions as I prepare for the Worlds. One of the keys ...

Journey to the Worlds 2012 Practice and Club Testing

My Journey to the 2012 World Long Drive Championship I'm going to do my best to once again chronicle my journey to the World Long ...

Ultimate Driver Clinic Highlights

Want to add 20 yards to your drives, hit more fairways, and improve your consistency? Then attend one of our monthly Ultimate Driver Clinics! Each ...

For More Distance, Focus on These 5 Swing Fundamentals

If you want to improve your distance - with your driver and with every club in your bag - the most important skill to focus ...

Performance Golf Training 5: Focus on Root Cause, not Symptoms

Performance Golf Training 5: Focus on Root Cause, not Symptoms Do You Make This Common Golf Mistake? If you are trying to address an issue ...

Performance Golf Training 2: Driver Accuracy Training 2

Performance Golf Training 2: Driver Accuracy part 2 In the first driver accuracy video I used shorter, slower swings at a 100-yard target to get ...

Performance Golf Training 3: Mid-Iron Distance Control 1

Performance Golf Training 3: Mid-Iron Distance Control 1 In this video I'll address a different game issue: determining distances for irons. As you see from ...

Performance Metrics 2: Scorecard Stats Are Your Secret Weapon

Use Scorecard Stats To Set Your Priorities and Improve Faster One of the keys to playing your best golf more consistently is to reduce the ...

Armchair Golf Pro: Bubba Watson beats Oosthuizen to Win Masters – An Interesting Contrast in Styles

Ahh, the Masters. Greatest theater in golf. This year was no exception as Bubba Watson beat Louis Oosthuizen with an incredible hooking gap wedge out ...

News: Eric Jones Speaker at Bay Area Golf Show

Santa Clara, CA (PRWEB) March 01, 2012 World long drive champion and PGA professional Eric Jones will speak on the main stage at the Bay ...

Performance Metrics 4: Scorecard Analysis 2

Performance Metrics 4: Scorecard Analysis 2 In this lesson we break down the results from my recent tournament competition. We'll see how to analyze the ...

Fitness Training for Golf

If you want to play golf a long time, avoid injury, and consistently play to your highest potential some sort of fitness regimen is a ...

Performance Metrics 3: Prepping for a Golf Tournament

Performance Metrics 3: Prepping for a Golf Tournament Let's say that you want to improve your golf game. You want to shoot lower scores and ...

Performance Metrics 1: Results-Focused Golf

Performance Metrics 1: Focus on Baselines for Results If the shortest distance between two points is a straight line, why do most golfers approach the ...

The 5th Key To Consistency is Tempo

One of the keys to improving your consistency is finding the right tempo for your swing. Tempo is simply the rhythm of your swing - ...

The 4th Key To Consistency: Athletic Balance

One of the most critical steps you can take to improve the consistency of your golf swing is to get yourself into athletic balance. Balance ...

The 3rd Key To Consistency: Spine Angle

Maintaining your spine angle throughout the swing is one of the most important ways to improve your consistency - primarily because it will help you ...

The 2nd Key To Consistency: Set-Up Fundamentals

Everybody would like to play more consistent golf. And no wonder. The essence of consistency is reliability and predictability. When we have a swing we ...

The 1st Key To Consistency: Pre-Shot Routine

The first key to playing consistent golf is developing a consistent approach to each shot, or pre-shot routine. You know consistency is a critical component ...

Journey to the Worlds: World Long Drive Championship Results 2011

Results from the 2011 RE/MAX World Long Drive Championships are in! I'm pleased to say that I did well at the tournament. I didn't bring ...

News: PGA Pros Working with Saving Strokes

You may have heard the slogan of the PGA - "Experts in the Business and Game of Golf." But PGA Pros don't just mind the ...

Armchair Golf Pro: Toms Victory Crowne at Colonial

David Toms is resilient. After a heart-breaking playoff loss to KJ Choi last week at The Players Championship, Toms bounced back and won the Crowne ...

Armchair Golf Pro: Choi Wins THE PLAYERS Championship

KJ Choi finally put a major notch in his belt with his win of The Players Championship at TPC Sawgrass. The stoic and stalwart Choi ...

Armchair Golf Pro: Glover wins at Quail Hollow

Lucas Glover finally got back into the winners circle with his victory at the Wells Fargo Championship at Quail Hollow. Lucas, who hadn't won since ...